The thinking on cider apple thinning

The thinking on cider apple thinning

—by Matt Milkovich Photos from a crop load study conducted by Penn State University assistant professor of tree fruit Shanthanu Krishna Kumar when he was a researcher at Cornell University. The photos show different crop densities of Binet Rouge trees, a French hard-cider cultivar, at a Cornell research orchard. From left to right, the crop was thinned to five, 10 and 15 fruit per square centimeter of trunk cross-sectional area, with th…